Chris.Utter's Q&A profile

• Visual Studio Team System VPC Foundation Server installed images - When?

  At TechEd, DVD's with VPC images of Foundation Server (well, everything in Team System) installed were being passed out.  This saves headaches for both end-users and MSFT (who have to answer all the install related issues) The question for the rest of us is: when would this be available for download from MSDN Thanks, I find it very annoying to try to enable alerts in a thread, and not being able cause of the shortage of MSN Aler ...Show All

• Windows Forms Show Only Errors in DataGridView?

  Hi all, Is it possible, in a DataGridView, to show only the rows which are in error I thought I might be able to create a DataView with a filter of "RowError <> ''", but since RowError is a property of the row and not a column in the table, that doesn't work. Perhaps there's a built-in way in DataGridView to only show errors that I'm not aware of. Any ideas Cheers, Matt ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Transparent toolbars and stuff

    ye i heard bout transparent stuffs in vista, im so srry if this isnt the right place to make a topic like this i heard u can make transparent bars just in windows from windows xp but i havent got the answer yet, so does anyone know If you're talking about alpha-transparency, that's been around since Windows 2000 (see "layered windows"). If you're talking about "glass", then you'll want to check out Jeff Pettiross's talk at the ...Show All

• .NET Development How to add index in DataTable so .Select() command will run faster?

  Is there anyway (not brute force) to add index in DataTable I have a big very table that I need to select some rows fast and those fields that I need to query are not primary key. Thank you!! Do dt.Select( null, "yourcolumn" ); // query with null filter and see if subsequent queries improve their perf. --VV [MS] vascov@microsoft.com ...Show All

• Visual C++ Mixed Mode EXE

  How can I create an app with both managed and unmanaged code, with wrappers to switch between the modes I know this is possible: I have done it in C++. I would like to know how to do it in a hex editor (in principle, of course!) Thanks. http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/  might help in such issues. Thanks, Ayman Shoukry VC++ Team ...Show All

• Visual C# How can I add a new row at top of a dataTable

  I intend to set datatable as datasoure of a combo box , add a row to datatable to have new item in the combo box , but its not work .Please help me , I would to have first Item value :Unknown Please help me, thank you   try { DataTable dt = new DataTable(); string sql = " Select distinct ID from TABLE"; SqlDataAdapter m_DataAdapter = new SqlDataAdapter(sql,Connection); m_DataAdapter.Fill(dt); DataRo ...Show All

• Windows Forms VS Bogging Down - How Do I Stop It

  My Visual Studio is starting to <u><b><color="red">REALLY</color></b></u> bog down to the point that it is becoming unusable. I'm pretty sure the background debugger causes this bogging. I've got a single solution open with 2 projects. On ...Show All

• Visual Basic Unable to create ASP.net(C#) project

  Hello Guys, Unabel to create or start a new ASP.NET Web Application from the project selecting window. I cannot insert the print screen of the message. Below is the error message i got as it as. "Visual Studio.NET has deteceted that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NETversion 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET web applications or services" OS : XP pro. I have installed .NET 2003. I have also installed IIS. Pl ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO 2005 Command Bar opening WinForm problem

  I'm developing a VSTO 2005 Outlook Add-In that adds a Command Bar to each Inspector window.  The command bar has a button that opens a Windows Form.  This works great for existing emails using Word as the editor and for new and existing email when Word is not the editor.  When I have a new email using Word as the editor and I click the button to open the form I get the following error: ActiveX control cannot be instantiate ...Show All

• .NET Development .Net Oracle process error

  hi This is regarding a performance issue in my windows application... Maximum possible process in my oracle server is 150... Sometimes my users wont be able to log on to my application since it exceeds maximum processes.. so we have to restart my oracle server.... Can anyone suggest the best practise to avoid this...im using Visual studio 2003 and coding in VB.Net Thanks Raju, I don't have any Oracle knowledge, but a ...Show All

• Visual C# C# 2.0 RTM compler incompatability with c# 1.1

  I have an existing application that declares a class that derives from System.Windows.Forms.Form and an interface. This compiled and worked correctly in 1.1 but an error is reported during in C# 2.0 "IRecitalMirageForm - type is not supported by the language" public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms. Form , IRecitalMirageForm Is there any workaround for this behavior IRecitalMirageForm is not a .NET ...Show All

• Windows Forms DefaultCellStyle.Format for an unbound row doesn't work.

  I add a DataGridView to a form and use the IDE to set the DefaultCellStyle.Format for one of the columns to "C2".  When I run the form, I can enter any value of any type and nothing gets formatted or validated. I tried setting the value in the form's constructor as well, but the results are the same.  Why doesn't this work     I finally realized that there is problem with ValueType ...Show All

• Windows Live Developer Forums OTP: Windows Live Messenger Keeps Crashing after signing in

  I have recently reformated my pc downloaded all the up to date updates i.e. service pack 2 ect.... so right away I went to download Live Messenger and now when I sign in this is what I get everytime. Windows Live Messenger has encountered a problem and needs to close You've posted this twice, I will delete one. HOwever, your question is off topic here, these forums are for developer questions onl ...Show All

• Windows Forms Child Windows Size

  I have an Outlook Express like MDI application where depending on the bar clicked appropriate child window opens on the right.  I have my child windows size fixed at 926 X 675 for a 1024 X 768 Windows Screen Resolution.  We have Windo ...Show All

• SQL Server Error Viewing the Execution option of a Report

  I select the option execution from a report (it's in properties option) and then raise an error which says An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log for more details. (rsInternalError) Get Online Help EXECUTE permission denied on object 'xp_sqlagent_notify', database 'mssqlsystemresource', schema 'sys'. I have full privileges in the DB and I think the report server is well configured. This is happening since I ...Show All